Police fire at man in domestic disturbance

July 27, 2009

Officers fired shots at an armed man who was involved in a domestic dispute this morning in the Far Northwest Side's Norwood Park neighborhood, but the man was not hit, authorities said.

The incident occurred at about 10:55 a.m. in the 6500 block of West Highland Avenue, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Michael Fitzpatrick. Police were responding to a call of a domestic incident involving an armed suspect, he said.

When officers got to the scene, they saw that the man had a handgun and ordered him to put it down. He instead allegedly pointed the weapon at police; one officer fired a single shot without hitting the man, Fitzpatrick said.

The man was immediately arrested and a gun was recovered, police said.

Mark Payne, a spokesman for the Independent Police Review Authority, said the agency will be looking into the incident.

The man was transported to Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center, said a fire department spokesman. According to police, he was being treated for minor injuries suffered during the arrest.